Today is Liberation Day and the start of a new golden age of American wealth and exceptionalism.

The right-wing spin machine went into overdrive this week explaining away the economic turmoil

caused by Trump's tariffs. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Michael Loenger. Also on this week's show, the CEO of Blue Sky

shares her ideas of how to billionaire proof the internet. Well, Zuckerberg has built a digital

empire and it's one man at the top of it. And I want people to realize that we can build our

own digital spaces. We can take that back.

Plus, why the mega rich want to escape the reality they've created for the rest of us?

We're just the first stage on the rocket, the disposable stage that they can jettison once they've made it to the next level. And I promise you, they're not going to make it. There is no next level.

This is it. It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Michael Onger.

The week began with a bit of foreshadowing, a bogus story that briefly juiced in anxiety-riddled Wall Street.

It all started with this Monday morning Fox interview with Kevin Hassett, Trump's director of the National Economic Council.

Will you do a 90-day pause? Would you consider that?

Yeah, you know, I think that the president is going to decide what the president's going to

decide.

To me, that sounded like Hassett was saying no, or at least just trying to dodge the question.

But one popular user on X interpreted it differently.

His little yep, or yeah or yeah, depending on how you heard it, was apparently enough for a

social media user who

goes by the name Walter Bloomberg, no relation to the billionaire or the business news outlet,

just someone who amplifies a lot of Bloomberg content.

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